Donating blood regularly will also help prevent heart attacks and strokes. It's a win win situation.

I go in monthly to have my blood count checked. If it's over 45 they stick a large needle in my arm and withdraw 500 ml, a little over a pint, and replace it with saline. I forget what's it called. Thankfully in the last 3 years I've only been bled twice. Mike

In a Rose Garden appearance Wednesday, President Trump warned Democrats not to pursue impeachment proceedings against him.

“There’s a danger here,” said Trump. “If someday a Democrat becomes president and you have a Republican House, they can impeach him for any reason, or her. Any reason. We can’t allow that to happen. We can’t allow it to happen.”

Trump was responding to a growing push from House Democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry into his administration after numerous executive branch officials, including former White House counsel Don McGahn and Attorney General William Barr, have declined to testify. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has attempted to tamp down her caucus’s push for impeachment hearings, citing the ongoing investigations.

But earlier in the day she charged that the White House was engaged in a “cover-up.”

“We believe no one is above the law, including the president of the United States,” said Pelosi, adding that committees would continue to fight Trump “to get the truth and facts for the American people.”

Trump’s warning that a Republican Congress could impeach a future Democratic president “for any reason” has some basis in history. The last president to face impeachment was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who was charged with lying about a sexual encounter with a White House intern.

Trump said he walked into a White House meeting with congressional Democrats that was supposed to be about infrastructure funding and informed Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he wanted to “do infrastructure” but not while he’s facing congressional investigations.

Trump, who declined to be interviewed for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, insisted he cooperated fully with the investigation nevertheless.

“I don’t do cover-ups. You people know that probably better than anybody,” said Trump, addressing reporters.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney — currently serving a three-year prison sentence — has said he made a payoff to actress Stormy Daniels, at Trump’s direction, to cover up what she said was a sexual encounter with the president.

Trump decried the cost of the Mueller investigation, which a large sign at the podium put at “$35+ Million.” By other calculations, the investigation actually represented a net profit for the Treasury, factoring in the forfeit of assets by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

After Trump’s Rose Garden comments, Pelosi spoke to reporters and denounced the president for his refusal to work with Congress on an infrastructure bill, adding, “In any event, I pray for the president of the United States, and I pray for the United States of America.”

While most of the Republican Party has closed ranks around Trump, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., came out in support of impeachment proceedings over the weekend. Amash, a libertarian who came to Congress in the Tea Party wave of 2010, said there was enough evidence in the special counsel’s report to begin a congressional investigation of the president. Trump replied by calling the five-term representative a “loser” and “total lightweight.”

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., vice chair of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement Monday that "the time has come to start an impeachment inquiry."

“Congress has patiently tried to work within traditional means to get to the bottom of this extraordinary situation," Scanlon said. "But we have reached an inflection point."

SEE ALSO: More House Dems come out for impeachment as McGahn defies subpoena

Freshmen Democrats have been pushing for impeachment since beginning their tenure. Shortly after being sworn in in January, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said, “We’re going to impeach the motherf***er.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Yahoo News in April that she was in favor of the process.

“It is just as politicized a maneuver to not impeach in the face of overwhelming evidence as it is to impeach w/o cause,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter Tuesday. “Congress swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. That includes impeachment. We have a duty to preserve our institutions + uphold the rule of law.”

An article of impeachment being passed by the House would not end Trump’s presidency but would lead to a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate and a vote on whether to remove the president from office.

President Trump does not play!!!!around!!! so the Democrats better be prepared for what will happen if they push for Impeachment of our President. " When You Play You Pay!!! Let that be known.... What do Y'all believe?

I believe they, the dims, had better be very careful what they wish for. I believe during the trial in the Senate so much damaging information will come out on people on both sides of the aisle that will send congress critters to jail. BRING IT ON!!! Mike

Versions of this story emerged last September when Boing Boing dug up an old New York Times article from May of 1927 that listed a Fred Trump among those arrested at a Klan rally in Jamaica, Queens, when "1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all," in the streets. Donald Trump's father would have been 21 in 1927 and had spent most of his life in Queens.

As Boing Boing pointed out, the Times account simply names Fred Trump as one of the seven individuals arrested at the rally, and it states that he was released without charges, leaving room for the possibility that he "may have been an innocent bystander, falsely named, or otherwise the victim of mistaken identity during or following a chaotic event."

Every time he ran for President he flamed out in the primaries. This time his opposition in those primaries is the weakest ever. So maybe Trump gets to beat Good Olde Joe. I am thinking that once again he will not get past the primaries. I want to see those quazy Leftist-Marxists slice an dice him over his Whiteness, his handiness, and his gaffomatic speech.

Ya almost have to feel sorry for old Joe except for how rich he became on a salary of recently $165,00.00 dollars for how many years. Voting himself a raise every year despite doing NOTHING for the people of our country. Mike

I am having a hard time w/ the liberal/leftist/democrat “guilty until proven innocent” approach to everyone except their own. I despise the IRS for having that authority. I have been audited 3 times, threatened w/ fines, confiscation of property, & prison. I was right all three times, got more refund than I had on my return.

When damn political parties are more important than elected officials’ duty to honor their oath to our Country, we are in trouble.

I had an uncle, retired USMC colonel who told me when I was very young, “Boy, when seeing the flag waving, hearing The National Anthem, doesn’t get your attention, you need to take a good look at how you are living. No country is perfect, that is reserved for God, but this is your Country, you have been blessed to be born here, never let it down.” I never knew until he died how decorated he was. The thing that touched me most was carbon copies of hundreds of letters he wrote, in his own hand writing, to mothers, fathers, spouses, of Marines he lost & the letters he received in return.

I think he would have a hard time understanding what is happening now.

Nixon shows us how this works, the american people were not in support of impeachment until hearings were done openly, the more people saw and understood the greater the support for impeachment.

People are not seeing the actual criminal activities listed by Mueller in detail, they are hearing Barr and Trump say there is nothing there. There are at least ten instances of obstruction that cases can be made from.

You are tedious and irrelevant. Show your proof or STFU and go away. Mike

The DOJ and white house are obstructing his appearance, trying to set terms. Barr wants it done in private, there is obstruction to the idea of a public hearing. Much would be about what is in the report, but would be an eye opener. Barr undoubtedly is opposed to the fact that Mueller's testimony goes directly against the position he has taken that there was nothing there.

Twilight Zone music about now. You guys are in for a shock as this winds down. Mike